The role of agricultural activity for ammonium contamination at a riverbank filtration site in central Delhi (India)

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• 作者：Maike Groeschke ; Pradeep Kumar ; Andreas Winkler…
• 关键词：Delhi floodplain ; Ammonium ; Column experiments ; Irrigation return flow
• 刊名：Environmental Earth Sciences
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：January 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：75
• 期：2
• 全文大小：1,752 KB
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• 作者单位：Maike Groeschke (1) (2)
  Pradeep Kumar (3)
  Andreas Winkler (2)
  Gesche Grützmacher (1)
  Michael Schneider (2)
  
  1. Kompetenzzentrum Wasser Berlin gGmbH, Cicerostr. 24, 10709, Berlin, Germany
  2. Hydrogeology Group, Freie Universität Berlin, Malteserstr. 74-100, 12249, Berlin, Germany
  3. Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India
  
• 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
• 刊物主题：None Assigned
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1866-6299

文摘

At a riverbank filtration (RBF) site in central Delhi unusually high and strongly fluctuating ammonium (NH₄ +) concentrations were measured in the groundwater. Sewage contaminated river water has been identified as the main source of the NH₄ + plume. However, the well field is located within an irrigated agricultural area and irrigation return flow might have an additional impact on the groundwater contamination. To quantify the role of irrigation return flow, sediments of the vadose zone were characterized concerning their hydraulic and sorption characteristics, and x-ray diffraction for clay mineral analyses and laboratory column studies were conducted with representative sediments. The sediments range between silt and fine-medium sand with calculated hydraulic conductivities between 2.1 × 10−4 and 1.0 × 10−7 m/s and a cation exchange capacity between 0.9 and 37.2 meq/100 g sediment. The column experiments show that NH₄ + retardation through cation exchange is the main process occurring in the sediments. Contrary to the results of similar experiments conducted with sediments from the saturated zone, mass balances reveal that NH₄ + fixation or degradation also takes place in significant amounts and up to 0.09 meq NH₄ +/100 g sediment were transformed this way. This indicates that irrigation return flow can be neglected as a major source of NH₄ + at the field site. Instead the NH₄ + fixation or degradation in the unsaturated zone might be one reason for the observed variations of NH₄ + concentrations in the groundwater. Keywords Delhi floodplain Ammonium Column experiments Irrigation return flow